November 1, 2012– ALASKA– There was volcanic ash in the air over the Shelikof Straight and parts of Kodiak Island yesterday. A person in Port Lions called KMXT to ask if a volcano had erupted, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory showed all was normal. However, it turned out that a volcano had erupted, though it wasn’t yesterday – it was almost exactly 100 years ago. The National Weather Service office in Anchorage reported that ash from the Novarupta explosion in 1912 was being whipped up by strong northerly winds because of a lack of snow cover in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes and Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula. The ash was lifted to about 4,000 feet and drifted over the Shelikof Straight and Kodiak Island. It was a significant enough amount that the weather service issued a warning to pilots, as volcanic ash can damage airplane engines. Known as the Katmai Eruption, the 1912 explosion came from a volcanic vent later named Novarupta. It was the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century and ash fell on Kodiak for three days. –Alaska Public

The odds of the dust being picked up, precisely when Canada experienced a sizable Earthquake on the same faultline is way to close, I’ll take those odds for a $100. I hate being lied too by those in charge.

Nothing to worry about, just old ash flying around due to lack of normal snow levels and missing glaciers that should be covering it. That’s about as silly as worrying about higher than normal earthquake activity at a newly built dam,that’s showing cracks at it’s base,that holds back so much water that the earth has shifted on it’s axis or a frankenstorm, never seen by man, or droughts in texas, or, ah, hmmm, i’ll get back to ya on this, gotta check fuel level on the generator.